Yakov Slashchov

Yakov Slashchov (29 December 1885-11 January 1929) was a general of the White Army during the Russian Civil War, leading some of Pyotr Wrangel's forces in the Crimea.

Biography
Yakov Slashchov was born on 29 December 1885 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire to a family of hereditary nobles, and he served in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I. He was promoted to the rank of Colonel in 1916, and he would become a general of the monarchist White Army during the Russian Civil War. Slashchov served under general Pyotr Wrangel, leading White forces in the Crimea, where his troops engaged in pogroms against Jews and in looting against the local population. Slashchov spent a few years in exile in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire before returning to Russia in 1929; on 11 January 1929, he was murdered by Lazar Kalenberg, who had lost some of his relatives in a White Army pogrom.